Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/shells/standalone-tcsh

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2016-09-10 at 17:43 BST, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> This package does not violate anything, it redefines a pkgsrc variable.
> 
> The package is not going away, so deal.
> 
> Indeed, given the usefulness of this, I do wonder if we shouldn't be
> packaging more shells like this.

It kills bulk builds unless the user is very careful, and we already
have ugly hacks in standalone-tcsh to avoid this on certain platforms.
Therefore I would strongly recommend coming up with a robust mechanism
where this cannot happen before expanding it to more shells,
especially those which are more popular than tcsh, if we are to
persist with such packages.

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